Hi everyone!
So this week was one of the best of my entire mission so far. On Wednesday with had a zone conference (with half the mission), and President and Sister Nilsen addressed us for most of that. It's sooo sad they go home at the end of the month!! I've learned a lot from them and it's incredible how much they love their missionaries.
Our ward served the lunch for zone conference, and guess who surprised me that day??? JANEL!!! She heard from Sis. Davis that the Westerville Relief Society was serving lunch to the missionaries, so she came and helped out! I was so excited to see her that I almost cried. Home, and BYU, didn't feel so far away!
We've had a lot of lessons this week. We met with Troy, an 18 year old kid who wanted to come to church. So we got him a ride, and I worked my tail off yesterday morning making homemade cinnamon rolls,.. but when we banged on his door and called him, no one answered the door though people were obviously home. What the heck. We also met with Rick, who's just an interesting person in general. Yesterday we had 5 appointments in a row after church, but 3 fell through, which was a little frustrating.
Steven has amazed us this week, but he is also a very difficult investigator because we barely understand anything he says, and we have to figure out how to pull him away from the Lutheran Church, where he has a lot of friends. After the zone conference on Wednesday, we dropped by to see him. After him talking and us not getting it, he grabbed a piece of paper he typed up, and showed it to us. He had recorded some dreams he had in past years. The second one was incredible. He dreamed last year of being at a big, castle-like building, with lots of people outside in bright, Sunday-best clothes. When he looked up inside the building, the upper levels were full of people dressed in white, all the same. As we read this on his porch, I started crying, because the Spirit was so strong. He definitely dreamed about the temple. When I showed him pictures of temples yesterday at church, he related the San Diego Temple to be similar to the one in his dream. We had a lesson with him after church, and he described receiving answers from God and being drawn to this. However, he came to the 1 o'clock Sacrament Meeting yesterday (not our ward), because he goes to the Lutheran Church first. We're getting him a Vietnamese Book of Mormon, and pray that he will receive a spiritual confirmation that he needs to commit to the true church.
Two crazy stories for the week, both including animals. We met with a former investigator this week (who is now a current investigator again!), and I gave a brief Restoration lesson using the pamphlet. Summer has 5 kids, two big dogs, a guinea pig, a hamster, and a couple rats. Her kids kept bringing us their animals, so I was holding a rat as soon as we entered the living room. While I was teaching, another rat was crawling over to me, and I kept pushing one of the dogs out of my face. Somehow I made it through with a rat on my arm!! (Mom, you would have been freaking out!) The second story involves me pulling weeds at a member's house on Thursday morning. As I yanked out this giant weed, a toad jumped out at me from the ground and freaked me out! But then I caught it, so of course I attached a picture of it for you!
One more thing: we have a mini missionary this week! In Ohio they do "mini missions" where youth 16 and older can stay with a companionship of missionaries for a week and do everything they do. So we have Sister Curl, from the small country town of Picqua outside of Dayton. She's really nice, but also really shy so far, so we're working with her on that!
Oh, and today for P-day we're having a zone activity- WATER BALLOON FIGHT!! We spent our study time this morning filling up 80-ish water balloons.
Love you!
Sister Petersen
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